July 31, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S5725 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

clerk will report the motion. 

The bill clerk read as follows: 

Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 473, S. 

3429, a bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a veterans jobs 

corps, and for other purposes. 

Mr. REID. I suggest the absence of a 

quorum. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

clerk will call the roll. 

The bill clerk proceeded to call the 

roll. 

Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I 

ask unanimous consent that the order 

for the quorum call be rescinded. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

CYBER SECURITY LEGISLATION

Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I 

rise to respond to the statement of the 

majority leader—first, to say that I 

share his sadness and disappointment 

that he had to file a cloture motion on 

this Cybersecurity Act, but I totally 

agree with the decision he has made. I 

do not think he had any choice. 

I think we are facing on the one hand 

an urgent, real, and growing threat to 

our security and our prosperity because we are vulnerable; that is, the 

privately owned cyber infrastructure of 

our country is vulnerable to attack 

from foreign enemies, from nonstate 

actors such as terrorist groups, from 

organized criminal gangs who are just 

out to steal billions of dollars over the 

Internet, and from hackers. 

So we are dealing with a real problem 

that all the nonpolitical security experts from the last administration, the 

Bush administration, and this one, the 

Obama administration, say is rising 

rapidly to being the No. 1 threat to 

American security. Over the Internet 

now, because of our vulnerability over 

cyber space, a foreign enemy can do us 

more damage than the terrorists did to 

us on 9/11. It is that stark. So that is 

one reality. 

The other reality is that Senator 

COLLINS and I, Senator ROCKEFELLER

and Senator FEINSTEIN, have been 

working literally for years. As Senator 

REID said, because of the urgency of 

the problem, we decided we cannot just 

fight for 100 percent of what we 

thought was best to protect our security. We pulled back; we made it not 

mandatory. We have standards being 

set for the private sector to defend 

itself and us better, and we are creating carrots and not sticks to encourage them to opt into those cyber security standards. That is one reality. 

The other reality is that in our government—notwithstanding controversy 

here—all the Departments are working 

like a team. As General Alexander, the 

head of Cyber Command at the Department of Defense says, cyber security is 

a team sport—the Department of 

Homeland Security, the Department of 

Defense, the FBI, the intelligence community all working together to protect 

our country. But they do not have the 

tools they need, and they urgently 

need this bill. 

Yet the other reality is, in the Senate, where once again we are gridlocked, we cannot even get the consent 

necessary to take up amendments to 

vote on. Senator COLLINS and I have 

said all along: Just get this bill to the 

floor. Let the Chamber, the 100 Senators, work their will on germane and 

relevant amendments, and something 

good will result for the country. So 

here is the bill on the Senate floor, and 

yet Members are blocking us from taking up those amendments. And I am 

afraid the consequence is that they are 

running out the clock. 

A lot of good work done by those of 

us who have sponsored the pending legislation, in a very constructive, bipartisan group, led by Senator KYL and 

Senator WHITEHOUSE—including three 

additional members of the Democratic 

Caucus and Republican Caucus—have 

worked very hard to bridge the gaps. 

We have come closer together, but we 

are not going to work this out unless 

we can vote. 

I wish we had not come to this point, 

but Senator REID has made the correct 

and necessary decision, and it will confront the Members of the Senate on 

Thursday with a decision: Are you 

going to vote for cloture to at least 

allow the Chamber to consider all the 

amendments on this bill that are germane and relevant or are you going to 

say: No, I will only settle for exactly 

what I want, and I do not want this 

bill; therefore, I am going to vote 

against cloture and run the risk— 

which all the independent cyber security experts in our Nation tell us we 

will run if we do not do anything—that 

we will suffer a major attack or at 

least we will continue to suffer major 

cyber theft. 

So I am saddened. We have worked 

very hard on this. But that is not the 

point. The point is, there is an urgent 

necessity to pass this legislation. It 

ought to be nonpartisan. It ought not 

to be the victim of special interest 

pleading. It ought to be all of us coming together, as we usually have on national security matters, to put the national security interests of the American people ahead of special interests, 

to resolve our differences, to settle for 

less than 100 percent, and to get something done to protect our country or is 

this going to be another case where the 

Senate fails to bridge the gaps, fails to 

be willing to make principled compromises and therefore fails not only to 

fix a problem but, in this case, to protect our country from a very clear and 

present danger of cyber attack and 

cyber theft? 

So Thursday will be the day of decision. I hope perhaps meetings can 

occur tomorrow in which we can reconcile our differences and agree on a 

method to go forward. If not, every 

Member of the Senate is going to have 

to decide whether they want to block 

action on cyber security legislation or 

whether they want to go forward and 

consider the amendments on both sides 

that have been filed. 

I thank the Presiding Officer and 

yield the floor. 

I suggest the absence of a quorum. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The 

clerk will call the roll. 

The bill clerk proceeded to call the 

roll. 

Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I 

ask unanimous consent that the order 

for the quorum call be rescinded. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. 

UDALL of Colorado.) Without objection, 

it is so ordered. 

Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, it 

strikes me, as I call you, Mr. President, 

that I once had the high honor to support a man who shared your name, indeed your father, for President of the 

United States. So it is nice to be able 

to call you Mr. President. 

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MORNING BUSINESS 

Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I 

ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to a period of morning 

business, with Senators permitted to 

speak therein for up to 10 minutes 

each. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

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TRIBUTE TO NED MOORE 

Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, I 

rise to pay tribute to an honored Kentuckian and veteran of World War II, 

Mr. Ned Moore. Mr. Moore visited the 

Nation’s capital several months ago 

with Honor Flight, the group that 

helps bring veterans to Washington, 

D.C., to see the memorials that were 

built in their honor. Mr. Moore was 

able to see the World War II Memorial 

that he and his fellow sailors inspired. 

Ned’s grandson, Mr. Tres Watson, is a 

good friend of mine, and when he made 

me aware of his grandfather’s visit, I 

thought it worth a moment to share 

Ned’s story with my colleagues. Ned 

Moore was born in Marydell, MS, on 

February 27, 1927. He joined the Navy 

in Jackson, MS, on August 1, 1944, at 

the age of 16, without his mother’s consent. He was assigned to the USS 

Coronis, a landing-craft repair ship, on 

Christmas Day 1944. 

While Ned was aboard the Coronis, it 

saw action throughout the Pacific Theater, including acting as a support ship 

during the battle of Okinawa. 

In 1945, Ned was assigned to the 

United Nations, where among his duties he served as personal driver for UN 

delegates including Eleanor Roosevelt, 

who was a UN delegate at the time. 

She presented Ned with a Roosevelt 

dime after making his acquaintance. 

In March 1946, Ned was assigned to 

the USS Wright, a Saipan-class light 

aircraft carrier, where he served as an 

aircraft mechanic. While the Wright 

was stationed in Pensacola, FL, functioning as a training ship, Ned married 

Margaret Daly in 1948. 

In October 1952, Ned was assigned to 

the USS Bennington, an Essex-class aircraft carrier that had been 


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recomissioned as an attack carrier. 

While the Bennington was stationed in 

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in February 

1953, then-U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy obtained leave for Ned to return 

to the United States for the birth of his 

first child. 

In 1958, Ned was assigned to the USS 

Wasp in Boston after it had been overhauled to become the hub of a special 

anti-submarine group of the Sixth 

Fleet. While aboard the Wasp, Ned 

sailed through the Mediterranean and 

participated in Operation Blue Bat, a 

U.S. military intervention into Lebanon. The Wasp was responsible for 

transporting sick and injured Marines 

from Lebanon so they could receive 

care. 

In 1960, Ned was transferred to NAS, 

Naval Air Station Memphis. While in 

Memphis, Ned established the Naval 

Air Maintenance Training Group Library. He was also a courier between 

Memphis and Washington, carrying 

plans for jets under design. 

He retired from the Navy in Memphis 

on December 31, 1964, as a senior chief 

petty officer. 

After leaving the Navy, Ned and his 

family moved to Mayfield, KY, where 

he worked as a maintenance manager 

at the General Tire manufacturing facility. There, he raised three children, 

Debbie, Richy, and Mike. After retiring 

from General Tire in 1983, Ned and his 

wife kept their house in Mayfield while 

traveling the country in a motor home 

in the spring, summer, and fall and 

wintering in Florida. They travelled to 

all 50 States. They moved to Lillian, 

AL, in 2005. 

At this time I ask my U.S. Senate 

colleagues to join me in honoring Mr. 

Ned Moore for his service to country 

and his devotion to the defense of freedom. When World War II ended, he laid 

down his arms to become a productive, 

successful member of the community 

who was admired by his family, neighbors, and State. He has been a role 

model to Tres Watson and many other 

Kentuckians. I wish him all the best in 

his retirement and a happy future. 

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WOOL TRUST FUND 

Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I am 

happy to hear there is a commitment 

to pass the extension and modification 

of the Wool and Cotton Trust Funds 

this year. As my colleagues noted, the 

Wool Trust Fund compensates for the 

competitive damage caused by the fact 

that duties are higher on imports of 

raw materials, like wool fabric, than 

on imports of finished products, like 

trousers and suits. This ‘‘tariff inversion’’ gives foreign manufacturers a 

significant cost advantage over U.S. 

manufacturers like Rochester, NY’s 

Hickey Freeman. 

Hickey Freeman has been operating 

in Rochester, NY since 1899. Wool cloth 

imported by Hickey Freeman is cut 

and sewn into wool clothing which, in 

turn, is sold in stores across the United 

States and around the world. I am particularly proud to note—while our athlete’s uniforms sadly were made in 

China, our announcers on NBC are 

wearing Hickey Freeman at the 2012 

London Olympic Games. 

The Wool Trust Fund is a successful 

program in curbing job losses and allowing American textile and apparel 

companies to expand their own export 

markets. Without the technical fix 

that we are asking for here today, the 

health of the Wool Trust Fund will be 

in peril. 

I thank Senator MENENDEZ for his 

tireless leadership in extending and 

modifying the Wool and Cotton Trust 

Funds and the Leader and Chairman 

BAUCUS for agreeing to work with Senators MENENDEZ, CARDIN and myself to 

ensure these important programs are 

dealt with by the end of the year. 

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6-MONTH CONTINUING 

RESOLUTION 

Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, agreeing to put the government on autopilot 

for 6 months is no great achievement. 

It simply means more drift. It means a 

longer period of uncertainty for government agencies and the people they 

serve, more spending on ineffective 

programs and outdated priorities, and 

inadequate investment in programs 

that merit additional resources. 

My preference is that we complete 

our work and make specific spending 

choices based on the relative merits of 

government programs. There is no excuse for the Senate not to be considering the appropriations bills. Our 

committee members have done the 

work of scrutinizing budgets, holding 

hearings, and drafting bills. Those bills 

deserve to be considered by the Senate, 

negotiated with the House and sent to 

the President as soon as possible. 

I congratulate the distinguished 

chairman of our Committee on Appropriations, Mr. INOUYE, for his dependable leadership on getting us to this 

point. I look forward to continuing our 

efforts to extend our appropriations authority for the balance of the fiscal 

year. 

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WEAR AMERICAN ACT OF 2012 

Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. President, 

in cities and towns across the Nation, 

workers have the proud tradition of 

manufacturing products that are made 

here at home. 

Manufacturing helped us become an 

economic superpower and build a 

strong, vibrant middle class. 

Ohio manufacturers and workers are 

some of the most industrious, innovative, and competitive in the Nation. 

Our companies and the hard-working 

people who fill our factories can compete with anyone in the world. 

But this competition is getting 

tougher as our Nation is facing ongoing 

and unfair competition from countries 

like China. 

It does not help when U.S. companies 

and organizations either outsource 

jobs, production, and purchases overseas. 

As has been reported in the news recently, the U.S. Olympic Committee’s 

use of Chinese-made apparel was a 

missed opportunity to use domestic apparel manufacturers. 

The public outrage about this decision created was predictable. 

It is unconscionable that the U.S. 

Olympic Committee would hand over 

the production of uniforms worn by our 

proud athletes to a county that flouts 

international trade laws, manipulates 

its currency, and cheats on trade. 

It makes no sense that an American 

organization would place a Chinesemade beret on the heads of our finest 

athletes when we have the capacity to 

make high-end apparel here. 

I am encouraged that, after speaking 

with the chief executive and chair of 

the U.S. Olympic Committee, uniforms 

designed by Ralph Lauren for the 2014 

Olympic Games will be made in the 

United States. 

I also applaud USOC’s decision to further ensure, as a matter of policy, that 

they are going to make Buying American a priority. 

But this incident reminds us of the 

consequences of passing a trade deal 

without real accountability and enforcement. 

Congress passed a trade deal with 

China more than 10 years ago, which 

has contributed to the loss of more 

than 5 million U.S. manufacturing jobs 

between 2000 and 2010. 

While some lawmakers and economists have written off our manufacturing sector including textile and apparel production they need to think 

again. 

According to the National Council of 

Textile Organizations, the United 

States is the third largest exporter of 

textile products in the world. 

The textile sector put more than 

500,000 people to work at plants in large 

cities and mills in rural towns. 

Do some lawmakers and economists 

really think we should turn our backs 

these working Americans? 

No. It is not right that U.S. workers 

get overlooked when it comes to showcasing that American apparel workers 

in Ohio towns like Brooklyn and 

Aracanum can make things. 

We’ve seen this time and time again: 

whether it is Olympic uniforms or U.S. 

flags, products all too often are not 

made here. 

We can and we must stop this disturbing trend. 

That is why I am introducing the 

Wear American Act to make certain 

that the Federal Government purchases apparel that is 100 percent 

American-made. 

That means all textiles and apparel 

purchased with U.S. tax dollars will be 

invested in U.S. businesses and communities not China. 

The textile industry has been a staple of our Nation’s economy since its 

founding and it will be important in 

the future. 


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